Lora DiMaggio- James Lee DiMaggio’s sister

We know Lora Robinson, is the sister of the man who kidnapped 16-year-old Hannah Anderson and burned alive her mother and 8-year-old brother. But contrary to most opinons she defends her brother and may have known something was seriously wrong the day her James Lee DiMaggio, committed the crimes.

Robinson who believes her brother was not capable of hurting anyone, once made a pact not to follow in their father’s footsteps. Her father James Everet DiMaggio was arrested in 1988 after breaking into the home of his ex-girlfriend wearing a ski mask and carrying a shotgun and handcuffs. The ex-girlfriend wasn’t home, but he held her 16-year-old daughter and her boyfriend and gunpoint. The girl managed to escape after asking to use the bathroom. He died of a “drug-induced” suicide on August 10, 1998, exactly 15 years before his son DiMaggio’s own death after an exchange of gunfire with police.

She said about her deceased brother

“Jim was the kindest, sweetest soul that you could ever imagine meeting, he lit up your life, he always knew what to say to make you laugh, he was my best friend, he was a person that you could depend on,”

She even warned James about watching out for the teen saying she looked like “trouble” The deeply affected Lora uploaded this picture of her and her brother on August 6th.

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Lora told CNN’s Piers Morgan on Tuesday she believes her brother was trying to protect 16-year-old Hannah Anderson before he was gunned down by FBI agents in the Idaho wilderness.

What are your thought on Lora’s claims? Does she have a point knowing her brother? Or is just the pain of loosing him talking?

Discussion

As Anderson Cooper, on his show, said, Lora is offensive. Read this article: “Better Off Dead” by Raina Kelley in The Daily Beast. It’s about “family annihilators”-fathers, whatever, who are depressed and under other pressures, typically losing a job, who methodically plan to kill their loved ones, and whoever else they can blame. According to the criminologist being interviewed, the annihilator externalizes the blame so instead of committing suicide, they kill everyone else. Another key point is they do not feel like the villian, they feel they are the victim. Lora is saying her brother was the victim! I think Lora’s behavior mirrors her brother’s. Her attacks on the 16 year old victim who just lost her mother, brother and dog to murder by Lora’s brother, are nothing but externalizing the blame and blaming the real victim–just like a family annihilator. DiMaggio family spokeman Andrew Spanswick said James DiMaggio had justs been fired from his job, he totaled his beloved Ford Mustang without insurance, he could not make mortgage payments so he was losing his house. Spanswick said James was depressed and isolated, and he did not have any family so he inserted himself into Hannah Anderson’s family. Hannah and Ethan called him “Uncle Jim” and they had known him all their lives. Hannah’s father had recently left California to live in Tennessee. He had asked James to take care of his family in his absence, meaning James is now the father figure, or surrogate father, of this family. The father had actually asked James to teach 8 year old Ethan how to shoot a gun about one week before James acted according to his scorched earth plan. James DiMaggio’s behaviors follow, almost to a T, the behaviors of a “family annihilator” in this article. He didn’t just go insane, he methodically planned it. Very interesting article. Another is “Despondent Dads Driven to Kill Loved Ones” on CNN. Googel them & read. You’ll learn a lot. You’ll also see Lora’s behaviors illustrated when the murderer feels like the victim. Lora’s statements about the 16 year old victim were senseless, baseless and disgusting. She needs to apologize to Hannah. She’s not saying these things out of grief, she is saying them because that is part of her externalizing the blame and making sure she and James feel like the victim. She needs to apologize.

Lora DiMaggio is a foul, disgusting sorry excuse for a human being. She had NO grounds to attack the 16 year old victim. Lora’s psycho. She needs psychiatric care. Even the mother and father of the Aaron Alexis, the Washingon DC Naval Yard shooter, had the human decency to apologize for their son’s violence. Lora has none. She’s exhibiting the same senseless behavior as her brother. I am very concerned that Lora’s son will grow up like his depressed, loner, unemployed, , James L. DiMaggio, and his violent grandfather, James E. DiMaggio. Based on his mother’s bizarre attacks, Lora’s son doesn’t stand a chance. Lora DiMaggio Robinson’s remarks on the Piers Show were heinous. Piers all but called Lora a liar. What is the relevance of the teenager wearing makeup in comparison to Lora’s brother’s violence? WHY would anyone be so inhuman as to attack a young teenager who has just lost her mother, little brother, and dog to murder? WHY, Lora DiMaggio? Because inhumanity is your inheritance and you are continuing the cycle.